Curriculum Vitae

since 4/2023

2021/2022

Independent Research Group Leader Metabolic Interactions at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Dept. of Symbiosis (HoD N. Dubilier)

Research associate at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Bremen, Dept. of Symbiosis, main topics: Development of methods for ultra-high resolution mass spectral imaging of metabolites and proteins in host-microbe interactions

Honorary research associate at Imperial College London, Dept. of Surgery and Cancer, Faculty of Medicine, Computational and Systems Medicine

Ph.D. (Dr. rer. nat.) in pharmaceutical biology with ,summa cum laude’
Thesis: “Establishment and application of techniques for microbial metabolomics”, Advisor: Professor Dr. Michael Lalk

Student apprentice (as part of Approbation) in a pharmacy, Greifswald, Germany

Diploma student at the Institute of Pharmacy, Dept. of Medicinal and Pharmaceutical Chemistry, University of Greifswald
Thesis: “Correlations between the cytotoxicity of anticancer drugs, especially platinum(IV) complexes and the enzymatic status in different human cancer cell lines”, Advisor: Professor PJ. Bednarski

Main fields: pharmaceutical chemistry, biology, technology and pharmacology

(for full list see List of publications or GoogleScholar)

Searching for solutions for Carbon-sequestration in coastal ecosystems: sea4soCiety (total: 5Mio. €, own working package as PI: 400.000 €)

“Apotheker-Paul-Marshall” scholarship for diploma thesis (12.000 €)

2022

Newcomb Cleveland Prize of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) for Breinlinger et al. 2021 Science paper Science News

2018

Mass Spectrometry Imaging Award 2018 by ImaBiotech for correlative imaging pipeline, awarded to PhD student B. Geier (5 000 $)

Seminar Series: Recent Progress in Infection Biology, University of Basel
Taking a Microscale Look at Host-Microbe Interactions: Visualising Cells and Chemicals in One Picture

Keynote lecture “Natural Products” at MiComm, Jena

Otto Mønsted guest professor lecture, DTU Copenhagen
A microscale look at host-microbe interactions & visualize cells and their chemicals in one picture.

„2nd workshop on Metabolomics in Chronic Inflammatory Barrier Diseases”, CAU Kiel

mSystems thinking series ‘Technologies in systems microbiology’ – online talk (400 participants)

Spatial Metabolomics of in Situ Host–microbe Interactions at the Micrometre Scale

International conference Microbial secondary metabolites in microbiomes, Copenhagen, Denmark

Chemical detection and visualization of microbial secondary metabolites -Spatial metabolomics of in situ, host-microbe interactions

International Imaging Mass Spectrometry Conference OurCon VI, Charleston, USA

High resolution mapping of microbes and metabolites exposes a network of beneficial metabolic interactions

8th nanoSIMS user meeting, Bremen, Germany

Spatial mapping of metabolites in host-microbe interactions

Mass Spectrometry Seminar of the Medical Faculty at the University of Münster, Germany

FISHing for molecules - probing metabolic signatures of intracellular bacteria with mass spectrometry imaging

Invited speaker and session convener at ISME Montreal

FISHing for Molecules - Probing metabolic signatures of intracellular symbiotic bacteria with mass-spectrometry imaging

Invited talk at the Microbiology and Infectious Disease Colloquium of the University of Greifswald, Germany

Spatial mapping of metabolites and proteins in host-microbe interactions at the micrometer scale

Invited speaker at OurCon Imaging Mass Spectrometry Conference, Pisa, Italy

Opening a new can of worms with high resolution multimodality imaging?

Invited speaker - Internal Seminar at Dept. of BioScience, University of Aarhus, Denmark

Spatial mapping of metabolites and proteins in host-microbe interactions

Invited speaker - Microbial Ecology Lecture Series, University of Vienna, Austria

Mass spectral imaging of metabolites and proteins in host-microbe interactions

Invited speaker - DFG Core Facility workshop "MALDI-MULTI", Bremen, Germany

Diving deep – Mass spectral imaging in marine and terrestrial invertebrates

Member of the faculty of the International Max Planck Research School for Marine Microbiology (MarMic) - Teaching in MSc program ‘Marine Microbiology’ practical and seminars “Symbiosis”

Featured on the German and French TV show Arte Xenius “Der Regenwurm: Der König der Bodentiere”

Assistant in instruction for diploma students in “pharmaceutical biology”